Musical Worldview: Akron/Family, "Don't Be Afraid, You're Already Dead"
“Don't be afraid, it's only love”
Musical Worldview (Instrumental Edition): Sonny Rollins, Freedom Suite
Sonny Rollins :: Freedom Suite
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Musical Worldview: African Head Charge, "Peace And Happiness"
“All I want is peace and happiness”
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Musical Worldview Project: the Kernal, "U Do U"
“How long since you loved somebody,
A little more than U DO U?”
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Musical Worldview: Jeff Tobias, "Thank You For Your Service"
“Don't you feel just a little used as you catch the bait and switch
No one ever threw a brick cos they wanted to get rich”
Musical Worldview: Jeff Tobias, "We're Here to Help"
“He had money poisoning
He had too much
We're here to help
You can't hide your love away
You can't take it to the grave”
Musical Worldview: Love and Rockets, "No New Tale To Tell"
“People like to hear their names
I'm no exception
Please call my name”
Musical Worldview: Jeff Tobias, "Our Very Recent Past"
“By the time they figured out who the real fascists were it was too late
All the ink had long since dried and all the trains had long since left the station
Who is above loving a face they don't yet recognize
Weep to think what could have been, but I guess that could be said about anytime
Still it seems decisive things could've moved the needle; maybe not
If only something from our very recent past could act as a warning - give us some vision - but our vision's left wanting
But never again doesn't mean anything if it never stopped happening
Who is above loving a face they don't yet recognize
Give up some small sense of yourself and help smash the hateful tide”
Musical Worldview: the Clash, "Know Your Rights"
“This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights
All three of them
Number one
You have the right not to be killed
Murder Is a crime!
Unless it was done
By a policeman or an aristocrat
Know your rights
And number two
You have the right to food money
Providing of course
You don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
Know your rights
These are your rights
Hey, say what, hey
Know these rights
Number three
You have the right to free speech
As long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it
Know your rights
These are your rights
Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
And it has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough
Well
Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run”
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Musical Worldview: Grateful Dead, "Scarlet Begoinias"
“Once in a while, you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right”
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Musical Worldview: Trey Anastasio, "Rise/Come Together"
“The ocean is only a lot of drops of water
And the land is only a lot of grains of sand
And the people of the world all love the way
We going to break down the walls one day
And come together, come together, come together
From high above we're all the same down here
Without a map, the lines all disappear
We're so tired of our senseless fight
The one thing we can all do right
Is come together, come together, come together, come together
Come together
We're all looking for a little more love
To shine a light and lift us up
When you hold me heartbeat to heartbeat
I'm a part of you and you're a part of me
And we rise up
And come together, come together, come together
We got to rise up
And come together, come together, come together
We're all looking for a little more love
To shine a light and lift us up
When you hold me heartbeat to heartbeat
I'm a part of you and you're a part of me
And we rise up
And come together, come together, come together
We got to rise up
And come together, come together, come together”
Musical Worldview: Thrice, "The Earth Will Shake"
“We dream of ways to break these iron bars
We dream of black nights without moon or stars
We dream of tunnels and of sleeping guards
We dream of blackouts in the prison yard
Heartbroken we found
A gleam of hope
Harken to the sound
A whistle blows
Heaven sent reply
However small
Evidence of life
Beyond these walls
Born and bred
In this machine
Wardens dread
To see us dream
We hold tight
To legends of
Real life
The way it was before
We dream of jailers throwing down their arms
We dream of open gates and no alarms
We dream of ways to break these iron bars
We dream of black nights without moon or stars
We dream of ways to break these iron bars
We dream of black nights without moon or stars
We dream of ways to break these iron bars
We dream of black nights without moon or stars
Heartbroken we found
A gleam of hope
Harken to the sound
A whistle blows
Heaven sent reply
However small
Evidence of life
Beyond these walls
Born and bred
In this machine
Wardens dread
To see us dream
We hold tight
To legends of
Real life
The way it was before
Look to the day
The earth will shake
These weathered walls
Will fall away
Look to the day
The earth will shake
These weathered walls
Will fall away
Look to the day
The earth will shake
These weathered walls
Will fall away
Look to the day
The earth will shake
These weathered walls
Will fall away.”
Musical Worldview: Beauty Pill, "Dog with Rabbit in Mouth, Unharmed"
“You’ll find that money is noise, this, us, together, is wealth
The body’s just cosines and vectors, love is the real health
We walk in circles, we walk in circles and lie down”
Musical Worldview: Ozzy Osbourne, "Crazy Train"
“All aboard Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay
Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing
Life's a bitter shame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Let's go
I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it, and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words, yeah
Heirs of a cold war
That's what we've become
Inheriting troubles, I'm mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
I'm living with something that just isn't fair
Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame?
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
The ledge, ha-ha, the edge”
Musical Worldview: Nina Simone, "Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)"
“What's gonna happen now? In all of our cities?
My people are rising; they're living in lies.
Even if they have to die
Even if they have to die at the moment they know what life is
Even at that one moment that ya know what life is
If you have to die, it's all right
Cause you know what life is
You know what freedom is for one moment of your life
But he had seen the mountaintop
And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you'd better stop and think
Everybody knows we're on the brink
What will happen, now that the King is dead?
We can all shed tears; it won't change a thing
Teach your people: Will they ever learn?
Must you always kill with burn and burn with guns
And kill with guns and burn - don't you know how we gotta react?
But he had seen the mountaintop
And he knew he could not stop
Always living with the threat of death ahead
Folks you'd better stop and think
Everybody knows we're on the brink
What will happen, now that the King of love is dead?”
Musical Worldview: Neil Young, "Keep On Rockin In The Free World"
“… We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got Styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive
… Keep on rockin' in the free world”
Musical Worldview: Phish, "A Life Beyond the Dream"
“Don't give up hope
We share these moments
Till they melt away
To foggy memories
Of a distant day
A curtain is blowing
In an open door
Two souls can breath as one
I wanted more
Now I'm letting it all roll by
I can see, I can see
A life beyond the dream
I'm watching it all roll by
I can see, I can see
A life beyond the dream
Don't give up hope”
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Musical Worldview: Phish, "Everything's Right"
“I'm going downhill with increasing speed
And compassion gives way, if you listen to greed
Focus on the past and that's what will last
Nothing that is real and nothing you can feel
Focus on tomorrow you'll have to borrow
Images and mind and thoughts you've left behind
Focus on today and you'll find a way
Happiness is how
Rooted in the now”
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Musical Worldview: Phish, "More"
“I'm vibrating with love and light
Pulsating with love and light
In a world gone mad a world gone mad
There must be something more than this”
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Musical Worldview: the Housemartins, "Get Up Off Our Knees"
“Famines will be famines, banquets will be banquets
Some spend winter in a palace, some spend it in blankets
Don't wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away
Don't shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today
Time to end the praying
Listen what they're saying
Get up off your knees
You can wag your finger till your finger's sore
Shake your head till it shakes no more
Paupers will be paupers, bankers will be bankers
Some own pennies in a jar, some own oil tankers
What may sound like tomorrow could be ours today
There's no more need for sorrow if we get off our knees to pray
Time to end the praying
Listen what they're saying
Get up off your knees
You can wag your finger till your finger's sore
Shake your head till it shakes no more
Countries will be countries, borders will be borders
Some have lost their folks at war, some have give orders
Don't wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away
Don't shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today
Time to end the praying
Listen what they're saying”